Society for One-Place Studies Google Hangout FAQs and Links

Society for One-Place Studies Google Hangout FAQs and Links

Julie Goucher

Open your browser and go to Google – www.google.com Google is clever enough to know where you are, so it will convert to www.google.co.uk if you are in the UK.

Now create your account. This is essentially an email address, but it is the key to a whole host of Google Goodies – YouTube, Google +, Google Drive (spreadsheets and word documents).

Once you have your email address something like XYZ@gmail.com you have the facility to join the Google communities (there are a quite a few genealogical ones, and others!) and join in. You can also access the hangouts.

How do I join a Society hangout?

You can participate in one of two ways:

By participating and joining the hangout as a JOINer

By VIEWing the hangout live or from the archived hangout

Where can I participate and get involved?

Google allows nine people to be in the hangout with the host. It maybe that members or people are invited to take part in a presentation.

Once you are a member the hangout event will appear in your Google+ Stream. If you respond to the event invite with yes or maybe the event will appear in your Google Calendar and will convert to your time zone.

If there are more than ten people Google will advise it is full and you will need to view rather than participate.

What is the Google Stream?

This is effectively your Google dashboard or the equivalent to the Facebook newsfeed. It is where you see what interests you – the posts that have been shared to the Google communities you have joined.